Publishers Lunch published the ebook, the latest in a series, to build excitement for the books before the late May opening of Book Expo America, an annual industry convention. | May 15, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)

Math is not my strong suit. And yet I'm faced with a multitude of fractions, decimals, percentages, frequency (FM) and amplitude (AM) modulations and average quarter-hour shares when reporting radio ratings and dial locations.

Radio stations take the ratings results very seriously. But not more so than A.C. Nielsen, which bought the Arbitron ratings company last year. | June 16, 2014»Read Full Article(4)

The season is still a couple weeks away, but the hot new Australian hip-hop star is doing her best to make this the Summer of Iggy. There seems to be no slowing down Iggy Azalea as she spends a third week at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Watch her big hit video below and then step back in time to see which songs were the biggest in the United States this week in 2009, 1999, 1989 and 1979.

Happy Bloomsday, dear readers. June 16 is the date the action takes place in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses," so Joyceans around the world celebrate it as a literary holiday.

One of the things I love about "Ulysses" is its one-day-in-the-life structure, which led me a few years ago to write about a bunch of one-day novels, which David Leon Higdon and others have dubbed circadian novels. Many contemporary circadian novels owe some debt of inspiration to either "Ulysses" or to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," if not both. | June 16, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

In a season during which so many of the nine plays on tap involve the tension between civilization and its discontents — as the pretty stories we're told to believe do battle with how we actually feel — could American Players Theatre possibly have chosen a better introduction than Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest?"

Nothing comes to mind — and after watching the smashing opening night performance this past weekend in APT's outdoor amphitheater, I'm confident nothing will. Director William Brown and his all-star cast land all the expected laughs in Wilde's witty play, while also delivering plenty of scrumptious food for thought. | June 16, 2014»Read Full Article